roundtheworldflights.com vs Google Flights

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Twitter is a wonderful invention. A speedy knowledgeable database filled with experts, folks with encyclopedic knowledge of the middle of nowhere and lots of funny looking animal memes. But sometimes, it can scare the absolute bejayus out of you. Take last Tuesday. There I was, hard at it on the RTW coalface when these two tweets appeared...

roundtheworldflights.com vs KAYAK

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Interesting report from Bootsnall released this week. Conclusion being the Kayak was cheaper when it came to RTWs. We were a little taken aback as this didn't seem to be our experience. Kayak are excellent for point to point fares (we like them) but not generally for multi-stops or RTWs. So we thought we'd do a little experiment. It's pretty unscientific but we took 5 of our biggest selling RTW routes and did a price comparison search leaving in May (low season). We also took a screen grab of the results. Some really rather surprising results...